Clifford Starke

Mr. Stark will serve as the Company’s President. From February 2022, he served as the Executive Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Franchise. Since May 2018, Mr. Starke has served as the Chairman of Hampstead Private Capital Ltd., a Bermuda based merchant bank investing in small to mid-cap, high growth companies in various sectors and primarily focused in the medical cannabis industry. Mr. Starke has over 15 years of investing and public markets experience and, over the last seven years, has acted as a financier, investor and operator of cannabis companies. Mr. Starke holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in History from Queen’s University.